Now, I haven't seen a post on my problem yet, but I'm sorry if this is a clone of an existing thread. Yesterday I tried to go back and install KoTor 1 on my windows 7 pro, but to no avail (same exact problem as stated below). I had a copy of windows 8 I had yet to install so as of today I'm running windows 8 Pro MCE with all updates installed and drivers freshly installed TODAY. This was not an upgrade but a format and clean install of windows. That being said I installed AND run the game in compatibility for XP SP3 and as Admin. I have updated to 1.03 and have no problems of any kind getting the game to launch, create a character, watch the intro movie, and start playing. HOWEVER I get random crashes - Never due to a movie, conversation or combat. but I can't even get through the endar spire without saving after every single battle. It will probably crash and right now my only hope is to reload and hope to get through that battle in order to create my next save. I don't have videos disabled but if someone suggests I would ask that they explain why, as I've already said I have no problems with videos, conversations, or anything of the like. In fact it always seems to crash while not in combat and I'm simply walking. Symptoms are no different in windows 7 or 8. If someone could help me out I would greatly appreciate being able to play on of my favs again!

Which copy of the games? Because my laptop runs both fine with an Sandy Bridge Intel i5 and Nvidia GeForce 540M. Did you tell the .exe's to use the (discrete) Nvidia GPU instead of the (integrated) Intel graphics? That might make a bit of difference, at least for KotOR II.

I have my integrated graphics disabled in bios so that doesn't even show up in device manager, I wouldn't think the game would have an issue there.

I'm running the original 4 cd's version of the game, I've had it since it came out. Just haven't pulled it off the shelf in quite some time.

I -may- have found the issue. Out of all the stuff on that second post I did all but one, I updated via the game launcher instead of downloading a separate patch. I will uninstall and try a clean install and update this thread with my findings. Thanks!

The Dantooine lag fix has been around since this game was almost new. I played through the game many times on xp and never needed it. Since I have always been among the "lucky few" I have always ignored that one. Until now, I had never been aware it affected anything but dantooine. As for processor affinity I set that manually on game launch rather than muddy up my settings files.

On a different note - Simply using the correct patch nearly fixed it. When I started it would crash once per 5 minutes, if it made it that far. After reinstalling using correct patch it has crashed twice during gameplay and I've made it to the part where you meet Juhani on dantooine. Not completely bug free but much better than it was.

I prefer the manual patch, set to XP SP2 compatibility mode for both games, myself. I actually set every .exe this way.

I agree that the Dantooine lag fix may or may not be necessary. It does affect more than just Dantooine, though; especially with newer video cards. I always have it in my .ini file regardless of what hardware I'm using. If it turns out that I don't need it, I just change the 1 to a 0.

There's no need to set CPU affinity manually. If you follow that step in the guide, it will do it automatically.

All of this is your choice, of course. I can tell from your posts that you know what you're doing.

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Fix their home team score on the board to the debt clock, they can win every game 17,000,000,000,000 to 24. Losing team gets taxed by the IRS 100%, then droned."

Well I should have read through that other post and stated specifically what I did different in the first place. Like setting my processor affinity to 1. I'm out of time tonight but I will certainly try the dantooine fix tomorrow and post back my results afterwards. Just curious "Q" why do you prefer SP2? I don't have any particular reason for using SP3 myself other than, there are usually some stability fixes included in each SP, so I have always defaulted to the latest available. Maybe that would be worth a try in my case? Though I don't cherish the thought of another install I'd like to get this game to run bug free. Rest assured I keep a notepad file with every change needed in order so I won't have to track all this info down next year. Haha! Thanks to all for the replies!